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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play was conceived by Peter Weiss, and based on many ideals of Brecht?
(a) The Screens.
(b) The Investigation.
(c) Ubu Roi.
(d) Marat/Sade.

2. Of which actor does the author say, "His tongue, his vocal chords, his feeling for rhythm compose an instrument that he has consciously developed all through his career in a running analogy with his life"?
(a) Peter O'Toole.
(b) Paul Scofield.
(c) John Gielgud.
(d) Charlie Chaplin.

3. In what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) Henry VI.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Henry IV.

4. The true meaning of a theatre piece only becomes apparent when an audience is what?
(a) Listening.
(b) Alive.
(c) Rapt.
(d) Present and reacting.

5. In the third section of the book the author claims, "It is always the ______ theatre that saves the day."
(a) Honest.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Popular.
(d) Proud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who "influenced Europe for half a century through a couple of performances given in Hampstead in a church hall"?

2. In which Shakespearean play does the Holy/Rough theatre show in Falstaff; the prose realism of the inn scenes on the one hand and the poetic levels of so much else--both elements contained within one complex whole?

3. The author writes of his book, "if anyone were to try to use it as a handbook, then I can definitely warn him--there are no _______."

4. Who once did a production of Love's Labour's Lost where the character called Constable Dull was dressed as a Victorian policeman because his name at once conjured up the typical figure of the London bobby?

5. What is the term which embodies the emotional and spiritual experience that occurs in great tragedies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author write in regard to the power of laughter in "The Rough Theatre"?

2. What does the author discuss as an ideal in Marat/Sade?

3. What is the author's presumed opinion of the works and style of Brecht? How is Brecht similar to Shakespeare?

4. What is the common thread between human existence and approach to process in the theatre?

5. How does Shakespeare embody both The Rough Theatre and The Holy Theatre?

6. Who is Bertolt Brecht and what was his major contribution to the modern theatre?

7. What does the author say of change and liberation regarding "The Rough Theatre"?

8. What is the difference in world view between Brecht and Shakespeare?

9. The author gives a formula for creating and defining theatre. What is this formula?

10. What does the author speak of regarding Shakespeare and the Rough Theatre?

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